Ep 1 - Fretboard Layout and Fret Slot Cutting - Making a Modern Multi-Scale Electro Acoustic Guitar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Welcome to Crimson Guitars th-cam.com/users/CrimsonC... and Ben’s home workshop where he is currently building the modern multi-scale NEBULA 2.0 Guitar. In this episode, Ben is prepping the raw materials, configuring the fretboard layout, and cutting the fanned fret slots.
The original Nebula guitar featured here - • Burning Bridges and an... was so well received that it sold immediately...twice.
In this series, Ben will be building the new and improved Nebula 2.0 as a custom order. • Making a Modern Multi-...
Different from the original, this guitar will have a multi-laminate neck, modern fanned fret, and semi-hollow, electro-acoustic beauty. This series should be about 10-12(ish) episodes.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Nebula 1.0
1:28 Your custom guitar
1:48 Raw materials
2:30 The design - Ben has a type...
3:02 The fretboard
3:17 Wood prep with Triton
4:07 HAA - Handplane Addicts Anonymous...
4:33 The MOST important centreline
5:13 Working out the Parallel Fret
9:24 How to radius with a hand plane
11:23 Work-holding
12:57 Masking tape and Superglue trick
14:59 Using a hand plane to radius the fretboard
16:52 Radius block and levelling beam to the radius
19:41 Marking the fanned fret positions
21:45 Crimson's Fret Slot Spacing Rule
23:27 Safest way to cut fret slots
26:04 Conclusion
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Stay tuned and stay awesome!
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9:30 The Holy Hand Plane of Antioch!
👼🌤️ lol, brilliant touch 👏
5 is right out.
@@m1k3g3tz "And the number of thy plane will be (stanley) 7..."
Aggh!
@@timbeaton5045 no more no less, 8 is right out!!!
Hey Ben, I just wanted to let you know me and my daughter love watching your videos together and she is determined to build her own guitar one day. Anyway, she has just returned home this morning from having an emergency operation and the first thing she wanted to do after a snooze was watch this video, so thanks for putting a smile on her face.
Hey Robbie, give her a hug from me.. I hope she's ok and is 100% soon! B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Shes recovering well thank you and your reply has just put an extra big smile on her face. Thanks so much 👍
Another advantage of cutting slots after applying the radius, is especially if you're planing in the radius, you can quite easily get tear out on the slot with some of the more brittle exotic woods. Generally that tear out is minor enough to hide under the frets, but sometimes it just isn't.
You know what, this hadn't occurred to me! It's been so long since I did it the other way.. B
"More planes than Heathrow!" I almost snorted my tea when I saw that!
That's the most British thing I've heard all day 😅
Haha! Didn't get the joke until you pointed it out xD
Have you ever considered a semi-hollow bass build? That’s something I would love to see.
Definitely need to see!
Now that would be cool
@Skull'n Fire I’m going to try it and keep trying until I get it right.
YES! That is tops on my wish list to build
I concur, good fellow! Bring on the bass!
For some reason it never occurred to me this is how you calculate fanned frets. I assumed there was arcane magic involved, but this makes so much sense. Looking forward to seeing how this build plays out! Thanks for sharing!
It is one of those things that, from the outside, really does seem like magic! I had the same thought about binding early on.. B
I was just thinking "Ben hasn't entertained me in a few weeks, this really isn't on" ... but then this popped up. Good times are here again. Thank you for your videos!!!
Hey Steve.. we've put up a few videos a week in between builds.. have you not been seeing the updates maybe? I do worry when people say this, it's totally cool if you don't enjoy the one day builds and shorter projects but it isn't cool if YT aren't giving you the option to even click on them? B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars It could be that I skip things about tools as I'm cack-handed and wouldn't dream of trying to build a guitar myself - so apologies for that, I'm subscribed with the bell rung and everything so I do watch _almost_ all the videos :D I do enjoy your builds though, you're up there with Bob Ross, watching you work away and occasionally thinking "uh oh, he's gone mad there" and then seeing you make it great!
Ben, hearing you about redesigning the depth stop for the fret slotting saw: how about a transparent depth stop ground such that looking through it from the top it serves as a magnifying glass? So when you start the cut, you get a magnified view of the line/mark..?
Just wanted to say thanks for all I have been able to learn from this channel. I build my first guitar this summer - as documented on my channel - and thanks to this channel and others I managed to build my dream guitar without any prior experience. And it amazingly turned out great. It’s definitely not my last build.... I’m hooked. Thanks 👍🏼
"Ten or twelve episodes". So that a series of 20 then ;-)
you know me so well.. in my head I thought '8 or 9' so I said '10 or 12' .. and it will still probably be far more than that. poop! B
@Dangnabbit Seems you'll be spot on!
Make that 25😂 no complaints here though this is my favourite build so far. Can’t wait for the last episode on Saturday. Or will it be?
so 26
@@phrenetik But we still have to see the custom knob. So that will be 27 episodes, or if we are being generous 26.5
Not that I am complaining. As a trainee guitar building this series has been an inspiration.
I don't think I've ever seen flamed ebony before, that looks amazing
I've seen flamed ebony before....his name is Nbutu and he dances at Mens Inc.
hi,
well, fanned frets , as comfortable as they are , are more likely to serve a tonal purpose . think of a bass with guitar scalelengh. it would work, but under quiet uncomfortable conditions , such as strings, so thick, they could be used to hang a bridge over a river. thought in the other directrion, it`ll tear your strings apart . but to get a more pronounced basssound and still have the light touch at the top strings , you would use fanned frets. the position of the parallel fret on the other hand is just for comfort alone.
love your videos btw .
greetings from germany
Sooooo.... what about the Star Wars themed design you did all the way at the beginning of COVID??? I am still waiting for that... please Ben pretty please
I've also wondered which galaxy that one flew off to?
Sometimes you are such a lovely dork. Thats what keeps me entertained, watching, and ,more importantly, learning. Thank you for being you!
Was waiting for a video series about building an awesome guitar. Learning is so much fun if you have a teacher like Ben...🙏🙏🙏
I'm so happy to be watching a from-scratch, hand-tool oriented build!
A minute and thirty seconds into the video I paused to type this. I was watching rather regularly when you made Nebula 1.0 and haven’t watched anything of yours in a good long while. I just came back and watched you make Shred (which was incredibly bold and honestly captivating) and now I’m watching you make this. I absolutely cannot wait to see how the rest of this goes!
I was just watching some of your older videos, as one does when they've run out of new crimson material, and was noticing how much better both the videos and skill have gotten. I love how as you've gotten better you've also become much more humbled. It's definitely a sign of growth and maturity. I enjoy your videos more and more. Thanks for doing what you do and sharing your knowledge Ben. 🤘☠️🤘
Now we're talking Ben! Looking forward to this build.
Ben, I would like to thank you for making this year a little special, with all the gloom and doom of 2020 you have been a bright light, your workmanship and love of what you do helps to no end. Spirits have been lifted this morning.
Hey Frank, the secret is I get as much out of making the videos as you seem to do watching them.. I really and truly love my life right now and am so happy that it helps a little in these horrible times. B
Great to see the kit builds are done with! Watching Ben lovingly use his skill to create masterful creations is the best!
I'll still use the odd kit or kit part where it makes sense to, it's insane time constraints that are forever done with.. except for a man vs cnc race I would love to do one day :) B
Dude, I don't want you to go to a corner and cry. It really doesn't matter if I like the guitars or not :). Watching you build them is always nice. Obviously I don't always agree with the design choices , but - honestly - that's not what it's about. This is about very good craftmanship, art, creative etc. And watching you build is simply great, because you do it so good. And the videos are also great work in itself. :). What I'm saying - art is what's inside you, not what others opinions are. :).
A lot of information, well presented. A lot of questions asked and answered that I haven't seen addressed elsewhere. I'll be watching the rest, even though I'll never make a guitar myself. You can never understand too much about the instruments you play, or what you're really paying for when you buy a custom guitar.
Great video like always... thank you for always teaching us so well. My brother and I are starting a guitar building channel and you are one of our big inspirations. We are not building for quality because we still have a lot to learn. But the videos are fast and loose. Hopefully people enjoy!
Thank you so much for this series !! I am truly inspired by your work & want to be able to do all of my guitar building by hand , so perfect series for me !
And again you got to have me waiting for weekly guitar build session!!! I was hoping the next guitar project and here we have it 😁😁😁
Thanks Ben, this is a very timely video. I’m starting my first scratch build Tele style guitar. One of the big worry’s was frets. Now a bit less. Until next video thanks and as always stay safe.
So glad to see you back to a full custom build!
me too!! B
I actually go back and re-watch who build series because it is fun and educational. It is also nice when you just need to pass time and want it to go faster.
Ben, you have no idea how much I needed this build right now, seriously! I loved the original nebula and where I am in my headspace in this year, I fucking needed this you fucking gem of a man
I subscribed after watching this and the other episodes of this build. I love your self-deprecating sense of humour. I have always enjoyed British humour. Hello from CANADA 🇨🇦. 🤓
Looking forward to the rest of the build!
Ben, you know guitar companies are going to use your videos has a learning guide. Your work is absolutely perfection.
I've been really enjoying this channel! Never seen flamed ebony before, amazing.
Thank you for your support Casey, I appreciate it! B
I've been waiting for you to do a full build of nebula! The original nebula is how I found you guys and its been amazing to watch along and try and build somethings.
Your detailed build videos are the best. Thank you.🙂
Got my notched straight - edge in the post today, thanks to all at Crimson who made it. It's functional AND aesthetically pleasing! Like peanut butter..
That fretboard is lovely
cool cant wait for the next ep
I look forward to the next one too⭐️👍✨
Hope you have a great guitar😘😍😻❤️️💜💙💛💚🧡
I'm very excited about this series. The Nebula is one of my favorite guitars that you've done. One of the sketches in my book of guitars to build is inspired by the acoustic-electric design of the Nebula mixed with a Les Paul body shape.
Great to hear that, I'm looking forward to the build very much as well.. and I would love to see your version one day, if you make it send pics? B
WOO-HOO ( UHUUUU ) ‼️HEAVENS YEAH 🙌🏽
It's a CRIMSON GUITARS' MODEL with "hybrid scale length ( MULTI SCALE LENGTH )" 🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝
I'd been watching it for couple times now, because I WASN'T BELIEVING MY EYES 😳
It's a daydream coming true 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Man.. I've missed your full builds so much... Thanks for doing another full build again! By the way, as someone said, a hollow body build would be really nice.
Flamed ebony. Wow. That's beautiful. Nice shot at 3:40.
Thanks Ben, that was a really helpful video. I've built a dozen guitars or so, but never tried a fanned fret. Also, that fret calculator is pretty handy- I had to write a computer program to do that back in college.... in 93....
Been waiting a long while for another serious Ben build 😁👏👏
me too.. it hurts not building from scratch for so long.. at least I have a proper workshop now and can do pretty much anything I can dream of now. Thanks for waiting! B
Nice selection of woods. Can't wait to see how this one goes.
You and me both! B
New build starts - now I wish it was like a new Netflix series and I could binge watch the whole build in one day!!!
me too, than I would already know what I've done with this one :) I am very much looking forward to seeing how it turns out. B
Saturday morning guitar build and a nice cuppa, makes my weekend!
You are too kind, thanks for watching! B
Wohoo! Ben, look at you using those bench dogs! Way to go!!!!!!!
Fantastic! Looking forward to this series
Man! Not even 3 min into the video and I already paused to like the video and type this comment!
That wood! Oh dear mother of all that is glorious in this life, that wood!
I want it! I NEED it! I MUST HAVE IT!
This is going to be a gorgeous guitar!
Ben back to his very best. I have been a subscriber since day dot, and have always rated your conventional guitar builds the crème de la crème of the business. Love ya Ben. In a bromance way 😁😘
Hey Chris, thank you, thank you very very much! I am sincerely looking forward to always having an interesting scratch build going on.. and it will run the gamut, from acoustic to bass to.. hell, there is no limit to what can be made in a shed in rural England! B
Ok, the choir of angels was a great touch. Looking forward to seeing this come together.
Talitha has moments of genius when she is editing.. we are a great team! B
Crikey! that fret leveling file sure is a big one!
Watching you make these beautiful works of art makes me wish I could do the same ^,..,^ Thanks, Ben!
This will turn out to be some of Ben's best work yet.
You make it look so easy!
years of practice and some great tools make a huge difference. both things that absolutely anyone can achieve with time! B
the ToT style subscribes hidden in each video is a fun touch.
I LOVE his videos and take much inspiration from the man! B
Glad I'm not the only one who caught that.
You really know how to make a beautiful instrument. I love your build vids.
Thank you very much! B
Finally, a good video on this. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! B
Casually using a chunk of rosewood as a clamping coil. Perfect.
A perfectly serviceable, and reusable, bit of wood at that.. but yeah, I get your point. Now, let me go wipe away my tears of shame with Brazilian Rosewood shavings ;) B
Part two tomorrow ? Super excited to watch this build! Get the live stream started lol
Thank you Ben.
Man Thnx making these videos, you actually inspired me to start building guitars. As always great vids!
My job here is done! Thanks for your support! B
1. A Les Paul shape is beautiful, it's no surprise you have made a lot of that shape. Personally, the shapes that came out of Gibson are beautiful, Les Paul, Explorer, Flying V, SG, all beautiful!
I raise you the Corvus/Futura, and the non reverse firebird...
I cant explain why but i got extremely excited by seeing a piece of flamed ebony
Use the force man!!!! Use it!!!
I actually have watched all of your videos LOL. Super fan from Pennsylvania here
Yeah man this is going to be awesome!
Thank you, I certainly hope so! B
Looking forward to this build!
me too, very much! Thanks for your support. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars 🥳
Just stood in front of this very guitar at the Northampton guitar show! I feel like I've met a celebrity. 😀
Hope you had a good show, and that she lived up to the hype?
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars absolutely! There were lots of wonderful bespoke manufacturers there it was very enjoyable.
Very skillful work sir!
Thank you kindly. B
For double-sided tape, try banner tape from a sign supply source. It is used to create hems around the edges of vinyl banners. Maybe go to a friendly sign-shop and ask for a piece to check out its qualities. I am in the US but I'm sure the same stuff is used internationally, and is nowhere near as expensive as 3M products.
Ben, welcome back form the dark side. I am really looking forward to you doing some more 'from scratch' builds!!...Very Inspiring !!
I’m beyond happy 😀
I think the main reason people go for fanned frets is the different tension across the strings. You can keep the highest strings looser and easier to bend, while the low strings benefit from a longer scale length, higher tension.
Quote of the vid - “ The sooner you reach perfection, the better...”
well, now that I know it’s that easy!
I would love to learn to make guitars, sadly I'm from México and getting good tools or even going to your trainings is very difficult, so I just can learn from your great and awesome videos...
Love that burl! And the flamed ebony too. I live in hope that one day you'll get bored of building guitars out of beautiful pieces of wood and think, 'Nah, I'll just use whitewash' and give away the contents of the wood store.
Oh, and the dual-purpose fret levelling file is an inspired idea- how about a combination router and spokeshave?
I need to get myself a thicknesser.... and a functional bandsaw and then I will be doing full builds. Cannot wait!.... though kinda nervous about building necks 😬😶
That’s a beautiful piece of ebony wood.
Here's a follow-up to the segment of you using a standard ruler for marking fret spacing. Even if you're a metric user, do the process in Imperial with a good quality machinist ruler that has 1/64th markings and a conversion chart in 1/128th. It's miles ahead of using mm with decimals in terms of accuracy and only loses out to a specific fret spacing ruler by being the slightest but less accurate along with being slower and more tedious. That being said, if someone needed to buy an imperial ruler like that in the first place, they might as well spend a few extra bucks and buy the fret spacing ruler outright. It's so much easier. If all someone has lying around is an imperial machinist ruler, have a go at it because you'll still get good results.
holy sweet baby jesus that wood choice. ive never even SEEN flamed ebony!
lol. I have been saving this top set for the better part of a decade now.. sadly the flame in the fretboard will disappear under finish.. we'll all no that it is there though, and that is what counts. B
I was planning on making a electric acoustic style build because i was trying to work out how the first nebula was constructed now I can watch this instead
This nebula build will be very interesting.
Hi Ben, a thought, can you maybe add longer scale lengths to the fret spacing ruler? I .e. do some with 26.5, 27, 27.5, 28 inch for people to do their own fan frets? Ad maybe some sort of adjustable fret slotting jig with a movable guide for the saw that locks into the fan positions? I think in the modern age, that would sell... Cheers!
My man you dont have enough cool hammers😎 your shop is very cool
hey friend! you can use wireless remote for all your lights! or even connect the intelligent plug with google home
but.. but.. then there wouldn't be the opportunity to joke about it :( Seriously though, I am going to look into my options, the worst mistake I regularly make is to forget to turn on one or two of them which messes up the balance and look of all shots filmed then. B
YES!
Absolutely!
Great vid, love the instructional style! More please! Just a couple of points, not being proficient with hand planes especially on a fretboard, I’ve started to use a belt sander for the initial shaping and tidy up with a radius block. Seems to work fine for me! Also, I’ve discovered the masking tape and superglue trick won’t work with certain masking tapes. I had four attempts the other day with a well known tape brand that didn’t work. Changed the masking tape and it worked perfectly! Probably best just to buy both from Crimson?!
very good job greetings from ecuador
greetings, and thanks. B
YES MSMGA Make Saturday Mornings Great Again. Saturday morning, a good breakfast, a fresh pot of coffee and new creative insanity from Ben and Crimson Guitars.
The only way this day could get any better would be if my doctor told me that eating bacon lowered my blood pressure and was a cure for diabetes.
You have to have the bacon with slices of fried bread for that effect!
FINALLLLLLLYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"And that's what we're going to do in this series, burn it!" Nice editing there, Ben ;)
Glad you enjoyed it, Talitha is fantastic at the editing malarky. B
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Looking forward to seeing this build come together. Shame Nebula Mk.1 wasn't available to display at the guitar show last September
I would like to see a guitar built by 100% CNC or as near as possible (that includes the hardware), I prefer to play hand-built instruments but I also love CAD & CAM, there is a certain satisfaction from non-destructive editing of a design and then the accuracy of CAM
Great video besides your workmanship you are a talent! :D
Thank you very much! B
So cool!
Your Awesome! Thank you so much for this videos!
Glad you like them, thanks for your support! B
Nice fret leveling file :-)